Abused 7-Year-Old Girl Plunges From Sixth-Floor Window, Sources Say [View all]

[The Straight Story]

Abused 7-Year-Old Girl Plunges From Sixth-Floor Window, Sources Say

A 7-year-old girl with signs of serious abuse fell out of a 6th-story window in the Gravesend houses Wednesday night.

DNAInfo/Trevor Kapp

CONEY ISLAND — A 7-year-old girl with signs of serious abuse — including heroin in her system, rope marks and evidence of sexual abuse — plunged out of the window of her relatives' apartment Wednesday night, less than two hours after cops found her wandering the streets alone and brought her back to her family, law enforcement sources said.

The girl, who lives in Florida but was in Brooklyn visiting her father's relatives, fell from a sixth-floor apartment in the Gravesend Houses at 7:43 p.m. Wednesday, sources said.

The girl was rushed to Lutheran Hospital, where doctors found signs of sexual abuse, rope marks on her hands and wrists, and so much heroin and methadone in her system that investigators believe they were administered via injection, the police sources added.

A family member leaving the apartment Friday declined to comment, but said: "She's doing okay."

"I want to get up. I want to get up. I want to get up," the badly-injured girl told witness Regina Speller, 51, as she lay struggling on the grass outside the building after the plunge, "I want to go home ... (to) Florida."

Speller added that the girl "kept trying to get up. I laid on top of her and just started praying. I was talking to her, trying to keep her calm. I asked her what was wrong, and she told me she wanted to go home," said Speller.

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